ProfChung Has Designed a Computer Model to Determine How Children

question 131

Multiple Choice

Prof.Chung has designed a computer model to determine how children might be able to acquire linguistic features without an inborn language acquisition device.She is likely to view infants as:

• A)grammarians.
• B)lexicologists.
• C)psycholinguists.
• D)statisticians.

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Definitions:

CS Preexposure Effect

A phenomenon in classical conditioning where prior exposure to the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus can inhibit the formation of a conditioned response.

Potentiation

Potentiation refers to the increase in strength of nerve impulses along pathways that have been used previously, either short-term or long-term.

Rescorla-Wagner Model

A mathematical model that describes how the strength of a stimulus in classical conditioning is a function of its association with the unconditioned stimulus.